William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon
William Least Heat-Moon, also named William Lewis Trogdon, is an American travel writer and historian of English, Irish, and Osage ancestry. He is the author of various bestselling books of topographical U.S. travel writing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth27 August 1939
CountryUnited States of America
goal kind setting-goals
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal.
america
The thing that overwhelms me when I go out now is the sprawlation of America.
fighting men water
The Lewis and Clark tale has all the all the elements that one would want to put into a movie. It has the, continual threat for life; it's got the thread of Indians; it's got disease. It has daily risk where these men may go under the water. It's got the fight with the elements. It's got the el the role of the unknown continually threatening them.
stars believe eye
I've read that a naked eye can see six thousand stars in the hundred billion galaxies, but I couldn't believe it, what with the sky white with starlight. I saw a million stars with one eye and two million with both.
taken two fire
The four horsemen of the prairie are tornado, locust, drought, and fire, and the greatest of these is fire, a rider with two faces because for everything taken, it makes a return in equal measure.
vision way turns
New ways of seeing can disclose new things… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?
law interstate happens
Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
self fool hindrance
The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
feel-better feel-good feelings
You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.
travel carpe-diem past
What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
night source restriction
Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.
history historical kind
Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.
travel men beckoning
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
native-american space light
To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.